>>> "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/18/00 05:11PM >>>
Mark,
So, was this utopian or not? We certainly did
not see any withering away of the state, not in the
former USSR, not in the PRC, not anywhere that
was or is ruled by a self-labeled Communist Party
(or some variation on that). Would that it were not so.
)))))))))))))))
CB: Barkley, in the Marxist theory of the state, the state does not whither away until
the second phase, communism, at a time when there are no longer any bourgeois states
to defend against. The state is not supposed to whither away in the USSR, PRC or
elsewhere, because there remain bourgeois states.
CB
